Uh-oh! This revelation has to really hurt. It seems that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd do some picking and choosing (otherwise known as “cherry-picking”) of data in order to try to support their position(s). At the same time, they ignore and/or suppress data harmful to their position(s). Permit me to be specific by providing examples — something the AGW crowd will never do.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said on January 8, 2013, “The facts speak for themselves – whether it is NOAA’s announcement today that 2012 was the hottest year on record or the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy, predictions of dangerous climate change impacts are coming true before our eyes.” From where or whom did Boxer get her data? Did she even bother to check its validity? Boxer used the (always objective – not!) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report as her source, but is it too much to ask a senator to verify her data? Boxer made a fool of herself by quoting NOAA without looking at other data sources.